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News Release from: Asset InterTech | Subject: ScanWorks
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 24 October 2007
Boundary-scan system supports Intel's
IBIST
IBIST leverages the boundary-scan IEEE1149.1 specification as the hardware and software communication methodology for accessing and controlling its embedded on-chip capabilities.
Asset InterTech is expanding its ScanWorks system by adding signal integrity analysis applications that support Intel's next-generation embedded instrumentation technology, Intel IBIST (interconnect built in self test) IBIST is expected to provide a more effective and much less costly means of validating server platforms which feature high-speed buses, such as PCI Express (PCIe), that are capable of billions of data transfers per second
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 28 Jan 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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"Over the last three years, we have evolved ScanWorks to the point where it brings considerable value-added functionality in its role as an easy-to-use design validation, test and debug tool for Intel's embedded instrumentation", says Tim Caffee, Asset's Vice President for Design Validation, Asset InterTech.
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"Embedded instrumentation like Intel's IBIST technology is particularly critical these days because the processing speeds and data transfer speeds of computers and other electronic systems have increased so dramatically".
"At the high speeds that systems are reaching today, the effectiveness of traditional methods of test and design validation, which rely on physically probing circuit boards, is significantly diminished".
"As the industry's demand for high-speed serial signal architectures continues to grow, we expect to see a growing dependency on IBIST for validating and testing Intel technology", says Lorie Wigle, Intel's Marketing Director of Server Software and Technology Initiatives.
Asset's ScanWorks environment with support for IBIST consists of software applications for validating and analysing signal integrity on buses through margining and BERT techniques.
ScanWorks interfaces to embedded instruments to validate board-level and system-level designs that feature high-speed buses such as PCI Express, Intel's QuickPath interconnect and others.
In addition, ScanWorks features a suite of fault diagnostic tools.
IBIST technology is a design validation and test architecture embedded into many of Intel's processors to enable chip-to-chip interconnect testing and design validation of high-speed buses on a printed circuit board.
IBIST leverages the boundary-scan IEEE1149.1 specification as the hardware and software communication methodology for accessing and controlling its embedded on-chip capabilities.
Asset's boundary scan systems, ScanWorks and DFT analyser, have advanced usability and automation features.
ScanWorks has become the boundary-scan test system of choice for practically all major communication and defence/avionics suppliers, including Cisco, Ericsson, Motorola, Lucent, Alcatel, Tellabs, Huawei, Raytheon, Rockwell, Lockheed Martin, BAE, ITT, Northrop Grumman, Smiths and others.
In addition, ScanWorks' adoption by companies like Microsoft for its Xbox 360 video game console and Delphi for its automotive electronics demonstrates that ScanWorks will continue its leadership as boundary scan proliferates in computers, set-top boxes, consumer electronics, industrial controls, automotive and other industries.
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